Subject: integrate 'quotient by zero' error message
From: Edwin Woollett
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:21:42 -0700
On Oct. 29, Dieter Kaiser wrote:
> I do not have this problem with the current version of Maxima from git.
> I get noun forms for the integrals.
>
> Maxima 5.25post http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> using Lisp SBCL 1.0.45
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
>
> (%i2) integrate(sin(x+sqrt(x))/(1+x),x);
> (%o2) 'integrate(sin(x+sqrt(x))/(x+1),x)
> (%i3) integrate(sin(x+sqrt(x))/(1+x),x,0,inf);
> (%o3) 'integrate(sin(x+sqrt(x))/(x+1),x,0,inf)
> (%i4) integrate(sin(x+sqrt(x))/(1+x),x,0,10);
> (%o4) 'integrate(sin(x+sqrt(x))/(x+1),x,0,10)
Thanks for the update, which is good news.
I can delay writing an interface to integrate
which catches bad news events and shields
users of nint.mac from such.
Ted